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This 3-day instructor-led course covers a range of components, including Azure Compute, Azure Storage, and network services that customers can benefit from when deploying hybrid solutions. In this context, the term hybrid means integrating infrastructure technologies that customers host in on-premises datacenters with Azure IaaS and PaaS services. This course offers an overview of these services, providing the knowledge necessary to design hybrid solutions properly. It also includes a number of demonstrations and labs that enable students to develop hands-on skills that are necessary when implementing such solutions.

Audience ProfileThis course is intended for IT professionals and development operations (DevOps) professionals who are well versed in on-premises technologies and who have some knowledge of cloud technologies but want to learn more about integrating their on-premises environments with Azure. These professionals should have at least three years of experience working in their respective fields—typically, in the areas of on-premises system administration or network administration, in addition to DevOps support. These IT professionals have broadly applicable administration and operational skills, and they generally work for both enterprise-level organizations and small and medium business environments.More specifically, the intended audience includes:

IT professionals who have used on-premises virtualization technologies, including both Hyper-V and VMware platforms, but who want to deploy, configure, and administer services and virtual machines in Azure.

IT professionals who have used Microsoft System Center to manage and orchestrate an on-premises server infrastructure.

Windows and Linux administrators who are looking to evaluate and migrate on-premises workloads and services to the cloud.

IT professionals who need to implement network connectivity between on-premises environments and services that Azure or Microsoft Office 365 hosts.

IT professionals who want to use Azure to increase the resiliency and agility of their on-premises environments.

DevOps personnel who are considering deploying hybrid solutions that consist of both cloud-based and on-premises components.

IT professionals and DevOps personnel who are experienced in other non-Microsoft cloud technologies,, who meet the course prerequisites, and how are looking to cross-train on Azure.

Module 1: Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft AzureThis module starts with a general overview of cloud computing, and then focuses on Microsoft Azure and its technologies that offer integration opportunities. It also introduces the most common methods of interacting with Azure, including the Azure portals, Azure PowerShell, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI), and Microsoft Visual Studio. The module concludes by covering Azure deployment models, which dictate how you provision and manage Azure services.Lessons

Overview of cloud computing and Azure

Overview of the Azure deployment models

Module 2: Integrating with Azure Compute ServicesThis module explores the different compute resources available in Azure in the context of hybrid scenarios. It first explains the differences between Azure virtual machines and Azure cloud services and how you can use each of them to migrate on-premises workloads. Next, it describes the process of migrating on-premises virtual machines to Azure by using virtual machine images and disks. It also explains the process of extending Big Compute workloads to Azure by integrating them with on-premises high performance computing (HPC) deployments and by using Azure Batch. The module concludes with an explanation on containers and Azure Service Fabric.Lessons

Overview of Azure virtual machines and Azure cloud services

Migrating workloads to Azure virtual machines by using virtual machine images and disks

Extending HPC workloads to Azure

Integrating compute workloads by using containers, container orchestration, and Azure Service Fabric

Module 3: Integrating with Azure virtual networksThis module introduces the Azure Virtual Network Service and its components. It also describes how to implement Azure virtual networks and integrate them with your on-premises computing resources by establishing direct network connectivity between the two environments.Lessons

Module 5: Designing and implementing Azure Site Recovery solutionsThis module presents the main features of Azure Site Recovery and the scenarios it supports. It also describes the planning considerations for Azure Site Recovery, the different types of implementations of Azure as a disaster recovery site for on-premises workloads, and the disaster recovery capabilities that StorSimple offers. You will become familiar with the process of planning Site Recovery deployment and will step through a sample deployment.Lessons

Overview of Site Recovery

Preparing a Hyper-V host for the implementation

Configuring Site Recovery protection of a Hyper-V virtual machine

Module 6: Designing and implementing cross-premises applicationsThis module presents the most common solutions that facilitate implementation of cross-premises applications, including Azure RemoteApp, Traffic Manager, and Hybrid Connections with the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service. It also describes the process of implementing cross-premises solutions for desktop, web, and mobile apps.Lessons

Overview of cross-premises application capabilities and their design considerations